DMT's Fraud Probe May Cancel Old Registrations — Should an Honest Buyer Lose the Car?

DMT's anti-corruption unit secured the department's server room on 29 October and is now going through years of registration data looking for illegally assembled vehicles and uncleared imports that got pushed through with help from insiders. Under the Motor Traffic Act, the Commissioner-General can cancel a registration later if the vehicle turns out to have been assembled or imported illegally, even if you bought it in good faith from a dealer, paid full price, and have had a clean logbook for years. One side says the law has to bite somewhere, or racketeers just keep hiding behind the next buyer; the other side says punishing the last person in the chain, who had no realistic way to check any of this, is not justice. If your registration got pulled tomorrow over something done before you ever owned the car, who should eat that loss, you, the seller who sold it to you, or RMV for approving it in the first place? Has anyone here actually been burned by a cancelled registration, or bought a vehicle only to later find a shadow on its paperwork? ඔයාගේ වාහනේ ලියාපදිංචිය කලින් කරපු වංචාවක් නිසා අද කැන්සල් උනොත්, ඒකේ වගකීම ගන්න ඕන කවුද?